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| Question | Answer |
| Poetry | A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings or tells a story in a specific form (usually lines or stanzas) |
| Poet | The poet is author of the poem. |
| Persona | The persona of the poem is the "narrator" of the poem. |
| Form | The appearance of the words on the page. |
| Line | A group of words of words together on 1 line of the poem. |
| Couplet | A 2 line stanza |
| Triplet | A 3 line stanza |
| Quatrain | A 4 line stanza |
| Qunitet | A 5 line stanza |
| Sestet | A 6 line stanza |
| Septet | A 7 line stanza |
| Rhythmn | The beat created by the sounds of the poem |
| Meter | A pattern of stressed & unstressed syllables. Types of Meter Iambic - Unstressed, Stressed Trochaic - Stressed, Unstressed Anapaestic - Unstressed, Unstressed, Stressed |
| Free Verse Poetry | Unlike metered poetry free verse does not have any repeating patterns and does not have rhyme. |
| Blank Verse Poetry | Written in lines of iambic meter but does not use end rhyme. |
| Rhyme | Words that sound alike because the share the same ending vowel. |
| End Rhyme | A word at the end of the line rhymes with another. |
| Internal Rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line. |
| Near Rhyme | An imperfect rhyme, close rhyme |
| Rhyme Scheme | A rhyme scheme is a pattern of rhyme. |
| Onomatopaoeia | Words that imitate the sound they are naming. E.G Buzz |
| Alliteration | Consonant sounds repeated at the beginning of words. E.G. Candy Coated Chocolatte |
| Consonance | The repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words. |
| Assonance | Repeated vowel sounds in a line or lines of poetry. |
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